“Add New Employee to This Position”

It’s a powerful usability upgrade that streamlines the hiring process and eliminates redundant steps.

With each release, SAP SuccessFactors continues to evolve with user-centric innovations—and the 2025 H1 update brings a particularly exciting enhancement for HR professionals: the ability to add a new employee directly to a specific position in the Position Org Chart.

📌 What Has Changed?

Previously, you could initiate the hire process from the Position Org Chart, but you had to manually fill all fields from scratch—even though the whole point of accessing the Position Org Chart was to hire into a specific position.

With the new enhancement, you can now:

✅ Click on a vacant position
✅ Open the Actions Menu
✅ Select “Add New Employee to This Position”

From there, the system will automatically:

Prefill the Position and Company fields (these are now read-only to ensure data consistency)
Use the date selected in the Position Org Chart as the default hire date

🔔 Tip: Make sure to adjust the desired hire date before using this functionality, as it gets auto-populated based on the date in the Org Chart.

🧠 Why It Matters

This feature may seem small, but for large organizations and busy HR teams, it’s a big time-saver and ensures better data accuracy. It removes friction in a core HR process—hiring—and adds more intelligence to how SuccessFactors EC supports business workflows.

This also demonstrates the value of the Customer Influence Portal, where ideas shared by the community can shape the future of SAP products.

💡 Final Thoughts

Thanks to SAP SuccessFactors for highlighting this update and sharing his original influence request. It’s a great example of how customer feedback drives meaningful improvements.

If you haven’t yet explored the new “Add New Employee to This Position” feature in your preview environment—now’s the time!